[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-05 Thread Narayanaswamy, Mohan
: liftweb@googlegroups.com Subject: [Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)! Formalities or content? http://wiki.liftweb.net/index.php/Maven_Mini_Guide must be improved. For people not accustomed to maven it is very hard to grasp the versions/release/snapshot/pom

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-04 Thread Chris H.
Hi Chas, Glad to see that there will be some time spent expanding and refining the Lift documentation, good docs are definitely the sign of a well run project. I am one of those lurkers you speak about, so I thought I'd speak up and give my input. I would like to see explanations on creating var

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-04 Thread David Pollak
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 7:58 AM, richard.car...@me.com wrote: > > My personal view is that a worked example of a fully featured > eCommerce type site would be most useful. Even something as simple as > a cut down Amazon style store with inventory management would be a > great start. That would be

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-04 Thread Greg
I have to agree with Richard on having soup-to-nuts examples on real- world/pragmatic implementations of Scala/Lift. We're all here because we 'believe' in Scala and Lift, it's just that those who are just starting (like me and Richard) would like to see examples on how to implement Scala/Lift in

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-04 Thread TSP
Examples, examples, examples, including scala. The scala-lang site is a bit daunting. I think you'll get more traction on Lift if you help people to get to grips with scala as well as lift. I have no idea whether I'm a typical newcomer, but I have come from Java (previously other things going bac

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
James, This looks more like about $20, but I'm not complaining. Your thoughts mirror mine in many ways. #4 is a very good idea. Even just a list of what is needed. Folks could add to a documentation wishlist, and then anyone who thought he or she could tackle an item could just do it. I'm gla

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Tom, Thanks for this link! The Second Life wiki is very interesting, and makes it obvious that one can do a lot with MediaWiki. I'll definitely spend some time exploring it. Chas. Tom Arnold wrote: > Hello List! > > I might as well share my thoughts about docs. > > I think as with Scala and

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread James Matlik
Hello Charles, This is good news. I'm sorry I didn't see your initial email going out, but I would guess it is better late than never. I think the first thing that needs to be done is to clearly define what is to be documented in the wiki and where. Here is my 2 cents: 1. There should be a

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Tom Arnold
Hello List! I might as well share my thoughts about docs. I think as with Scala and Lift you should try to beat the best that is out there. And from all the user made language/API/framework wikis I have seen the one from a now pretty unpopular game is by far the best: http://wiki.secondlife.com/

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Axel Rose
Formalities or content? http://wiki.liftweb.net/index.php/Maven_Mini_Guide must be improved. For people not accustomed to maven it is very hard to grasp the versions/release/snapshot/pom dependencies. Various articles use various version numbers when building examples. I, personally, got lost.

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Thanks! Will do! Chas. Bryan. wrote: > I'd like to help with the wiki as well. Let me know if there is > anything in particular that you would like me to do. > > --Bryan > > On May 3, 9:46 am, David Pollak wrote: >> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Axel Rose >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> Hell

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Thanks, Richard. Very helpful. Chas. richard.car...@me.com wrote: > My personal view is that a worked example of a fully featured > eCommerce type site would be most useful. Even something as simple as > a cut down Amazon style store with inventory management would be a > great start. That would

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Thanks, Axel. Will take this under consideration. Chas. Axel Rose wrote: > Hello Charles, > > I know I'm a bit late for your request to consolidate the lift wiki. > > Anyway: > It's really puzzling to me to get the version numbers right, when creating a > new > archetype with maven. > > The

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Timothy Perrett
Richard, its a shame you feel like that. Your comments about examples are noted, however you must bear in mind that both scala and lift are young (relatively speaking) and a lot of the applications that are out there, are behind corporate firewalls (including mine) - so don't be fooled into think

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Timothy Perrett
Wow! Too lazy to register?! IMO, registration is a one-time event and is needed to combat spam / bot activity. Rather than having a system where people complain / suggest alterations, we prefer people to just get on and change them... Power to the people! On 03/05/2009 14:33, "Axel Rose" wrote:

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Bryan.
I'd like to help with the wiki as well. Let me know if there is anything in particular that you would like me to do. --Bryan On May 3, 9:46 am, David Pollak wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Axel Rose wrote: > > > > > > > Hello Charles, > > > I know I'm a bit late for your request to co

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread richard.car...@me.com
My personal view is that a worked example of a fully featured eCommerce type site would be most useful. Even something as simple as a cut down Amazon style store with inventory management would be a great start. That would be a useful foundation for the rest of Lift's features (add-ons such as onl

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread David Pollak
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Axel Rose wrote: > > Hello Charles, > > I know I'm a bit late for your request to consolidate the lift wiki. > > Anyway: > It's really puzzling to me to get the version numbers right, when creating > a new > archetype with maven. > > The Maven mini guide at http://w

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Axel Rose
Hello Charles, I know I'm a bit late for your request to consolidate the lift wiki. Anyway: It's really puzzling to me to get the version numbers right, when creating a new archetype with maven. The Maven mini guide at http://wiki.liftweb.net/index.php/Maven_Mini_Guide is not so helpful. Perha